{"id":5064,"date":"2023-11-16T14:33:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T05:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:39:36","slug":"20231116_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/2023\/11\/16\/20231116_1\/","title":{"rendered":"We won No. 1 at the Dream Pitch held at Startup Japan Expo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 15th, at the Dream Pitch &quot;The Future of Finance Opened Up by Fintech&quot; held within the Climbers Startup JAPAN 2023 Expo, Standage&#039;s Vice President, Omori, took the stage to pitch and won first place out of three companies based on audience votes.<\/p>\n<p>In the six-minute pitch, we introduced our core business: a trade settlement system utilizing blockchain and stablecoins. We discussed how we can achieve the simultaneous exchange of &quot;payment (stablecoins)&quot; and &quot;goods (electronic bills of lading)&quot; in trade, the challenges we can solve, and our comparisons and advantages over competing services.<\/p>\n<p>After all three companies in the theme had finished their pitches, the audience voted, and Standage was awarded the prize for receiving the most votes.<\/p>\n<p>Upon receiving the award, Omori commented, &quot;Trade is a field that is not easily perceived as familiar to people, so I am very happy that so many people have recognized my work.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u25c7Startup Japan 2023 Official Website:<a href=\"https:\/\/eight-event.8card.net\/climbers\/startup-japan2023\/\">https:\/\/eight-event.8card.net\/climbers\/startup-japan2023\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5066\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4524-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4524-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4524-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4524-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4524-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4524-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 15th, at the Dream Pitch &quot;The Future of Finance Opened Up by Fintech&quot; at the Climbers Startup JAPAN 2023 Expo, Standage Vice President Omori took to the stage to pitch, and was voted No. 1 out of three companies by the audience. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/2023\/11\/16\/20231116_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We won No. 1 at the Dream Pitch held at Startup Japan Expo!<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136],"tags":[],"acf":{"en_news":{"custom_css":"","en_title":"STANDAGE won No.1 in the Dream Pitch at Startup Japan Expo!","content":"On November 15, Mr. Omori, Vice President of Standage, took the stage at the Dream Pitch \"Fintech opens up the future of finance\" at the Climbers Startup JAPAN 2023 Expo and won the first place among all three companies by the audience vote.\r\n\r\nIn his 6-minute pitch, he introduced Standage's core business, a trade settlement system with the use of blockchain and stablecoin. The pitch discussed how to achieve simultaneous exchange of \"payment (stable coins)\" and \"goods (electronic bills of lading)\" in trade, issues that can be solved, comparisons with competing services, and advantages over them.\r\n\r\nAfter the pitches by all three companies in the theme were completed, the audience voted and Standage was awarded as the company with the highest number of votes.\r\n\r\nMr. Omori commented at the time of receiving the award, \"Trade is a field that is difficult to become familiar with, but I am very happy that so many people appreciate it in this way.\r\n\r\n\u25c7Startup Japan 2023 official website: https:\/\/eight-event.8card.net\/climbers\/startup-japan2023\/\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5066\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4524-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" \/>"},"author":{"author_image":"","author_name":"","author_image_link":"","introduction":""},"production_published":true},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5079,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions\/5079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}